France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLEYou start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
CHARLES DE GAULLENothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
CHARLES DE GAULLEPolitics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
CHARLES DE GAULLEMy dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThese people really aim very badly.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt is better to have a bad method than to have none.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAdversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
CHARLES DE GAULLEGreatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhen I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
CHARLES DE GAULLESilence is the ultimate weapon of power.
CHARLES DE GAULLE